to the detriment of popular groups. Am I wrong, or can a newcomer no longer get a list of groups in any category which will rank the groups in order of popularity? Now my feeling is hi5 can use these popular groups to hi5 advantage by selling advertising space at the group site, much the same as utube benefits from popular videos. As a monitor of a popular group, I have watched pending members go from 1000 a week to one a week. Has anyone else noticed this?

Maria B
In effect, the list by category has been disabled in the new version. Malicious activity was taking control of the most popular groups by visiting and targeting groups with hacking and spam activities. In the new version you will be able to continue to make a search by category using the search bar on top of your groups page thus making it harder for popular groups to be targeted, and we know this is a little inconvenient but in the long run you will see it will be worth the effort. We ask you to include keywords in your groups descriptions so that the search engine can place and recognize them in the search results. In other words; the new new version will be based in keywords and not popularity.

Yes, but can't a spammer or hacker find a group in the same way anyone else can?

Thanks for the response.

Maria B
I think so!!!!!! but the instances will be less. Although, I'm not quite sure how this strategy will work at the end. I can only assume that if this turns to be more effective, then the engineers may want keep it or work around it in future versions.

=== Original Message === Yes, but can't a spammer or hacker find a group in the same way anyone else can?

Thanks for the response, Rafa. We'll wait and see.